Widebody Kit on a Mitsubishi Eclipse: What Changes
The widebody Eclipse carries the most consequential body kit in film history on its shoulders: the lime-green 2G Eclipse that opened The Fast and the Furious wore its fibreglass wide-arch kit into cinema legend, and every Eclipse widebody since lives in that car's reflection. The platform earned the fame honestly — the 2G Eclipse and its DSM siblings were the turbocharged, all-wheel-drive budget heroes of the 90s import wave — and the widebody treatment amplifies the swoopy, cab-forward body that made the car the era's poster shape. An Eclipse widebody today is equal parts tribute and revival: the film car's silhouette, rebuilt on a platform the scene never quite forgot.
Real Build Cost for a Eclipse Widebody Kit
The build's realities are DSM realities. The kits themselves follow the period pattern — full fibreglass conversions and bolt-on arch work in the $1,500–$4,000 band plus paint, with reproduction film-car kits serving the tribute crowd directly — but the donor situation defines everything: clean 2G turbo cars (the GSX's all-wheel-drive drivetrain especially) climbed hard as 90s import nostalgia matured, while the plentiful naturally-aspirated coupés remain honest canvases at used-economy money. The platform's famous fragility folklore — the 4G63's crankwalk saga — matters less to a widebody build than the sheet metal: rust-free shells are the real currency, and the fibreglass hides nothing underneath. Fitment runs period-correct: 17s and 18s in 90s-import language on the 5x114.3 pattern, filled to arches that read best at the film car's modest-by-modern-standards width. The tribute question is the build's fork — replica-faithful or silhouette-only — and both directions are established.
Preview your Eclipse before the build starts
An Eclipse widebody negotiates with a film icon's silhouette — replica-faithful or your own take, the reference is unavoidable. Render your actual Eclipse wide before the fibreglass ships. TunedRides does it in about 30 seconds.
Upload your Eclipse photo, free →Rendering a Widebody Kit on Your Eclipse: Three Steps
- 1Upload a photo of your Eclipse. Any well-lit angle works; side-on captures bodywork modifications like widebody kits the cleanest. JPG or PNG, up to 10MB.
- 2Select Widebody Kit as your style. Our AI reads your Eclipse's body lines and proportions, then applies the transformation accurately. Not a generic edit, a render that respects your specific car.
- 3Download your render. Ready in about 30 seconds. Free renders are watermarked; Pro ($14/mo or $69/yr) gives 250 HD watermark-free renders a month for shops and builders.